David Hoenigman
David Hoenigman | |
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 David Hoenigman, Experimental Novelist | |
| Born | Cleveland, Ohio |
| Genre | Experimental fiction, literary fiction, postmodern, absurdist fiction |
David Hoenigman (born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio) is an author of experimental literature[1] and avant-garde literature. He has lived in Tokyo, Japan since 1998. He is the organizer of Tokyo's bimonthly Paint Your Teeth, a celebration of experimental music, literature and dance.[2]
Interviews
Hoenigman regularly interviews avant-garde writers for the online journal Word Riot. Some of the writers he has interviewed for Word Riot include Mark Amerika, John Bennett, Norbert Blei, Tom Bradley, James Chapman, Billy Childish, Noah Cicero, Dennis Cooper, Debra Di Blasi, Shozin Fukui, Eckhard Gerdes, Richard Gilbert, Richard Kostelanetz, Stacey Levine, Jeffrey Lewis, Carole Maso, Scott McClanahan, Dawn Raffel, Davis Schneiderman, Jess C Scott, Ron Silliman, Judith Skillman, Terese Svoboda, and D. Harlan Wilson.[3]
In November 2009, Hoenigman's interview with Yoko Ono appeared in The Japan Times.[4] Hoenigman also interviewed Japanese film director and screenwriter, Kōji Shiraishi for 3:AM Magazine.[5]
Hoenigman's Sion Sono article was the cover story of the June 19, 2009 edition of Metropolis Magazine.[6]
Works
Hoenigman's novel, Burn Your Belongings, has been described as "a brave exercise in anti-narrative, a reminder to us that there is more to writing and reading than best-sellers."[7]
Word Riot compared the novel to the work of Samuel Beckett and Pierre Guyotat, summarizing the novel as "a well-crafted and adventurous book from what is undoubtedly a writer of great promise."[8]
In a Rain Taxi interview, Hoenigman explains that Burn Your Belongings was an experimental work in the sense that he had no idea what the outcome would be: "I had some theories and some things I wanted to try, and I just let it fly from there. . .[the artistic result is] my attempt to present this chaos in a manageable form, like a piece of music."[9]
His excerpts have appeared in Red Leaves / 紅葉, Smokebox,[10] Zygote in My Coffee,[11] SNReview,[12] and Literate Machine.
Hoenigman is currently working on his second novel, Squeal For Joy, forthcoming from Jaded Ibis Press.
Bibliography
- Novels
- Burn Your Belongings, Jaded Ibis Press (2009)
- Shame on You (chapbook) from Louffa Press (2010)
Reviews of David Hoenigman's Books
- Review by Alex Martin, Outsider Writers
- Burn Your Belongings, Word Riot
- Space and the city: experimenting in Japan, The Japan Times
External links
- Author's Official MySpace
- Interview at Word Riot
- Interview at 3:AM Magazine
- Interview at Rain Taxi
- Interview at Metropolis Magazine
References
- ^ "What is Experimental Literature?". HTML Giant. March 11, 2011. Retrieved March 16, 2012.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "Performance art's expatriate players push the envelope". The Japan Times. November 23, 2010. Retrieved March 16, 2012.
- ^ "David Hoenigman Interviews, Word Riot". Word Riot. Retrieved March 16, 2012.
- ^ "Yoko Ono, forever a force for peace". The Japan Times. November 7, 2009. Retrieved March 16, 2012.
- ^ "Article If You Want Blood (You've Got It): An Interview with Koji Shiraishi". 3:AM Magazine. November 29, 2009. Retrieved March 16, 2012.
- ^ "Director of Chaos". Metropolis Magazine. June 18, 2009. Retrieved March 16, 2012.
- ^ "Space and the city: experimenting in Japan". The Japan Times. July 27, 2008. Retrieved March 16, 2012.
- ^ "Burn Your Belongings, a review". Word Riot. Retrieved March 16, 2012.
- ^ "Burning Behind the Unnamable: an interview with David F. Hoenigman". Metropolis Magazine. June 20, 2008. Retrieved March 16, 2012.
- ^ "burn your belongings: an excerpt story by david hoenigman". Smokebox. January 3, 2006. Retrieved March 16, 2012.
- ^ "Burn Your Belongings: An Excerpt". Zygote in My Coffee. November 25, 2005. Retrieved March 16, 2012.
- ^ "Excerpt from Burn Your Belongings". SNReview. Retrieved March 16, 2012.